Helix ligata

Helix ligata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicidae
Subfamily:	Helicinae
Tribe:	Helicini
Genus:	Helix
Species:	H. ligata
Binomial name
Helix ligata Müller, 1774
Synonyms
Helix (Helix) ligataO. F. Müller, 1774 · alternate representation Pomatia ligata(O. F. Müller, 1774)

Helix ligata is a species of large, air-breathing land snail native to central and southern Italy.

Taxonomy

Helix ligata is one of closely related species in a group that diversified in the Apennines. The group still waits for a formal taxonomic revision; the most recent taxonomy proposed based on mitochondrial phylogeny presumed that there are at least five species: ^[1]

• Helix ligata
• Helix pomatella
• Helix miletti
• Helix gussoneana
• Helix calabrica

References

1. Fiorentino, V.; Manganelli, G.; Giusti, F.; Ketmaier, V. (2016-05-01). "Recent expansion and relic survival: Phylogeography of the land snail genus Helix (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from south to north Europe" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 98: 358–372. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.017. ISSN   1055-7903.

• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2: I-XXXVI, 1-214, 10 unnumbered pages. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Molleriana